I like your way of thinking! What a great way to assess the practicality of viewing and admiring the Olszewski miniatures frequently (for those who are able to visit Disneyland often)!

A helpful Cast Member at Disneyana offered this helpful suggestion: Since all the pieces are cumulatively too expensive to buy for most people, then one could just buy the one, two or three "favorite" attractions/buildings. For me at least, the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean--both with interchanged scenes--and the Matterhorn and old Disneyland sign will be too cool to pass up. Then, just use your imagination to fill-in the rest of the park...

I like my suggestion better ... based on the one above, but with this important addition: Everyone on LoT buys two or three of their favorite pieces, and we consult with each other so as not to double up. Then, quarterly, we all get together and assemble miniature Disneyland in its entirety ... have a big party ... then, for the kicker, we each take home different pieces than we had possession of during the last quarter.

That way, no one busts their budget; we each get a revolving display of different pieces to display in our homes; and four times a year all the pieces (and we) get together for a build-Disneyland festival.

I like that idea. I have the Castle and the Hub. I may buy one more piece but we'll see. I do really like the Mansion.

:snap: ^ Another great idea from a brilliant Social Imagineer! :D

That's a great idea. I have the castle, hub and Town Hall. Too bad I live on the other coast. (This means I can't use the "go see them at the park" method mentioned above. Thank God for cstephens' photo updates!)

Travis mentioned on Saturday that not all of the Main Street pieces will be available all the time (since demand for some of the buildings won't be continually high), but that availability of all the buildings will rotate so that from the time you decide to start collecting pieces (once they're all available), it should be about 3 years to complete the collection. That would probably work best for budget reasons as well. Signature pieces like the castle, Town Square, hub, major attractions should always be available.

That is a very hip idea, iSm. :iSm:

I will purchase Jungle Cruise, Teacups and Main Street Station ... if we get enough people to go in on the plan.

Heck, I'll even pitch in on one Main Street Building, if we can get others to do that as well. If these are going "out of print," so to speak, we have to ensure that we can build the entire Park ... and make sure that we get the less "sexy" pieces as well as the icons.

Ok good a thread where we can openly discuss our addictions.

I'm using these as my Christmas "snow village". So far I've been working on the Main Street buildings. I added the train station and DL Electric train this year. While the train station is as amazing as the rest of the pieces, the train set pretty much blows.

The station sits up on it's base so you have the two tunnels, but there is no way to connect the train set to it (even if you take it off the base). Next year I'll have to build some type of ramp (berm?) to get the train to pull into the station. I'm looking forward to getting a close look at the main street display in April so I can see how they get around this issue. Plus get a lot of photos of the real thing to help in my set dressing...

The whole set looks pretty cool done up on a bed of fake snow for the holidays even if I do get some strange looks from folks about my SoCal snow set... :)

iSm is eeeeevil! What a bad influence on my spending agenda! :eek: I had decided that I do not need to purchase any of these things! Why the heck do I need these things???

<pant, pant>

Now I really, really want to join the party. Sigh.